Share This Poem: “Home Security,” by Marylen Grigas

We are proud to inaugurate a new series of poems by Marylen Grigas, illustrated by Riley McAlpine-Barthold. These elegant poems map the boundaries of home, body, illness, and love, boundaries also eloquently evoked in the line drawings. Click on the title or artwork below to see the poem in a printer-friendly, larger-font version, or scroll down past the bylines for plain text.

Marylen Grigas is the author of the poetry collection Shift, out this fall from Nature’s Face publishers. Her poems have recently been published in The New Yorker, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Circulo de Poesia. She lives in Vermont and works at an architectural stained glass studio.

Riley McAlpine-Barthold grew up in rural Vermont in a cabin without electricity or running water but with lots of time to draw. After college, she moved to L.A., where she worked as an artist and painter. Now back in Vermont, Riley continues to make art and is also a certified Bioenergy therapist.